SOC220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Criminal Code (Canada), Criminal Record, Mental Disorder
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Can be both good and bad in certain contexts. Good for employers, not good for those who need employment. The concept of policy is: a specific and concrete phenomenon, both a process and product, a set of laws, linear and rational. An increase in demand for record checks: currently in canada there is no systematic way of tracking criminal records. What lead to the demand: not-for profit sector, public and private sectors. Rationale for criminal record checks in canada: see record checks as being a standard part of organizational policy, see the police record check process as an essential part of the duty to care. No publicly available statistics that track the use of record checks. On average, there has been a 7% increase. Some education institutions are using it, as well as landlords. Between 7 years, 2% increase in hamilton, 200% in victoria. High profile child sexual assault cases in the 1990"s.
